Newly crowned EU jr welterweight champ Vittorio Oi will have to give ex-ruler Ville Piispanen a rematch. Oi won a controversial technical decision the first time around but Piispanen and his promoter Pekka Maeki protested to the EBU and while Oi is allowed a voluntary defense he will have to make his first mandatory defense against Piispanen.
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War Zaveck..Don't know if he could pull this one off,Berto is not going to be an easy out at this point..But this should be a good fight,with plenty of action...

berto is coming off a loss though. how this will affect him remains to be seen. it will be a good fight for sure. europeans rarely disappoint in their US debuts. zavec knows he needs a good showing to get more fights in the US. also remember the winner gets bailey (the IBF mandatory) next. bailey is no pushover either.
i'm a little surprised berto had no say on this yet. i would expect him to be the trashtalker of the two.

berto is coming off a loss though. how this will affect him remains to be seen. it will be a good fight for sure. europeans rarely disappoint in their US debuts. zavec knows he needs a good showing to get more fights in the US. also remember the winner gets bailey (the IBF mandatory) next. bailey is no pushover either.
i'm a little surprised berto had no say on this yet. i would expect him to be the trashtalker of the two.

I don't know bout Berto being a trash talker after the Ortiz fight,Berto might take the serious and focus role..It would be better for him imo..

Dejan has been wearing the World Champion***8217;s belt for 18 months already by now. A bit dissapointed because we could not get your heroes to fight our champion here. As I've seen that some of you (maybe) never heard of Dejan Zavec (Jan Zaveck), I have decided to share some information about our champion.

I'm looking very positive into upcomming match vs Andre Berto. It will be a tough match for sure. Berto is few classes better opponent than Zavec was facing last few fights. I must agree with someone who already said that Zavec must win this fight over KO. Not just win, he must crush Berto just for the reason of comming to US grounds and no doubts that Dejan will squeeze every last atom of strenght to succeed.

I really want to see Berto falling on the floor on 1080P HBO stream, so I put my bets on Zavec.

I'll be honest, I have never seen any of Zaveck's fight. Is he strong? Or is he like Carl Froch slick and with power?

His footwork is his biggest weakness. However he can bang, he's a good puncher, and has a solid chin. He has good power but he's not that fast, he has success in volume. More Glen Johnson/Arthur Abraham than he is Froch or Kessler, hes pretty good at bullying/smothering his opponents when he tries to, which is pretty much his only chance with Berto.